[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] adding $HOME/Documents to the volumes toolbar

[Gary Martin]

Hi Walter,

On 10 May 2011, at 13:54, Walter Bender wrote:

> As per a discussion at the EduJam and Sugar Code Sprint, I have
> modified a patch by tch to add access to ~/Documents to the volume
> toolbar in the Journal.
> 
> Two patches: (1) a new icon; and (2) the patch to volumestoolbar.py
> 
> (Gary. could you please look at the icon?)

Could you clarify a couple of things for me:

 - will the volumes toolbar tray now always be visible in the Journal (usually with just this one icon)?
 - will this only activate for folks using GNOME + Sugar desktop combined installs (ease use of files between desktops)
 - can it easily be disabled in a build to keep the Sugar UI uncluttered (sounds like this might be a quick hack to help fix poorly ported GNOME applications like tuxpaint)?
 - are there thoughts to add other local paths, root?
 - are there thoughts to add remote resource paths, webdav, schoolservers, ftp, dropbox?

General comment: Certainly would want to make some small changes to the icon as is, do we want to introduce the concept of folders? I'm thinking about consistent visual metaphors for various resource types, local vs. remote at least seems an important distinction (if we end up with a bunch of different targets down in the tray).

Regards,
--Gary

> -walter
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